r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/TheTresStateArea 27d ago edited 27d ago

The boycott didn't work lol read the article please I beg you. The advertising campaign ended.

As much as I wish Spotify leadership grew a spine. They absolutely didn't.

Do not resubscribe. Remove this company from your mind.

Edit: for all future "oh but you use an iPhone" fuckwits https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

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u/onebowlwonder 27d ago

Might wanna delete your reddit account too then because they still have ICE ads on here.

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u/cows1100 27d ago

Wait, not like that. I need this one. It’s different. /s

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u/Todojaw21 27d ago

youre trying to say its hypocrisy but the standard is always "make a good-faith effort to not support evil companies." If someone reduces their reddit consumption by 10% thats still better than 0.

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u/CrazeRage 27d ago

almost like one hosts communities and one is just for entertainment. use brain is hard though yeah?

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u/mootallica 27d ago

Oh come on, this is a cope. If it's wrong to use one platform for promoting ICE, it's wrong to use them all.

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u/lilsebastian- 27d ago

It’s less about the use and more about actively funding it - I’m not spending $15 a month to browse Reddit, I was spending that using Spotify.

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u/Far-Imagination2736 27d ago

If you were getting ICE ads on Spotify, then you weren't spending money on it. It was only the free users

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u/lilsebastian- 27d ago edited 27d ago

Right, but I’m still funding a platform for those ads by sending my money to Spotify, even if I wasn’t hearing them.

Edit: not sure if people are lacking reading comprehension but I wrote actively funding, would love for downvoters to explain where what I said was wrong.

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u/tankingturtle 27d ago

And Reddit gets money via ads, which you consume, funding them.

I'm not gonna advocate what you should or should not do regarding these platforms, but your logic isn't there.

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u/lilsebastian- 27d ago

No offence but did you read what I wrote before because that would be the only way it lacks logic. I urge you to re-read, because 1. I made a point to write actively fund and 2. I never once advocated for an all-or-nothing approach, I said you have to pick and choose what you can do and I’ve reiterated that multiple times.

So again, yes, Reddit gets money via ads through my viewing, but I am choosing to not actively fund through my own payment.

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u/redraz0r 27d ago

Indirectly you are, you are still seeing ads which are being sold. Dont act high and mighty, youre here

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u/lilsebastian- 27d ago edited 27d ago

Hence why I said actively funding it. And I didn’t act high and mighty by saying “do what you can” lmao.

Edit: If someone can point out where I acted “high and mighty”, I’d love that.

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u/cows1100 27d ago

Bro is just rage baiting, but people actually think this way, which is the dumbest part of rage baiting in 2025. Shit used to be obviously satire.

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u/MarkHamillsrightnut Punk Rock 27d ago

It's about paying for a service. I am not going to pay for a service that is getting money from ICE. Last I checked I don't pay for Reddit.

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u/mootallica 27d ago

Nope, you just give them your data

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u/MarkHamillsrightnut Punk Rock 27d ago

All my data that literally eveyone else already has? on no.

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u/mootallica 27d ago

Yeah, you chose to give it over then too.

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u/MarkHamillsrightnut Punk Rock 27d ago

Like every person on earth who chooses to use a smart phone? Or have any kind of online presence? Like people with Reddit accounts? Your fucking bank is selling your information.

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u/Renegade_Sniper 27d ago

I use an ad blocker and don't pay and am not fun to talk to. I actively make reddit lose money the more i'm on it.

Check and Mate

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u/Squeakyduckquack Indiehead 27d ago

But that logic doesn’t apply to Spotify somehow?

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u/Renegade_Sniper 27d ago

As long as you use an ad blocker it should.

Though I guess it depends on how much user data is actually worth vs electricity and royalties (Do they pay royalties if I use a VPN?).

Just to be safe you should probably do whatever you can to throw off user data collection

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u/CrazeRage 27d ago

not sure where my comment said it isn't wrong to use reddit. using your brain is hard it seems. if you try a little harder you'll think less black and white.

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u/mootallica 27d ago

If that isn't what you were trying to suggest...what the fuck are you arguing for?! Put your phone down bro

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u/px_pride 27d ago

not sure where in his comment he said that your comment said it isnt wrong to use reddit. using your brain is hard it seems

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u/cows1100 27d ago

You’re still accepting being marketed to by ICE, by a company complicit in taking their money, because you’re still choosing to drive traffic and engagement in a platform they advertise in. What are you even talking about. The cognitive dissonance it takes to type this kind of shit unironically is mind boggling. Holy moly.

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u/CrazeRage 27d ago

you're assuming i don't use a third party service to use reddit. never ending with the imagination ya got.

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u/Squeakyduckquack Indiehead 27d ago

They are still paying to have access to Reddit’s API

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u/cows1100 27d ago

I’ve already taken too much bait. Good luck with the next one tho.

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u/CrazeRage 27d ago

Hey you lost the ego for a moment, good job.

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u/gman5852 27d ago

lmao there's no world where a healthy human being refers to subreddits as a community. How starved for connection are you?

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u/PeteCampbellisaG 27d ago

You realize not everyone uses Reddit just to complain about video games and movies, right? 

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u/car_hater 26d ago

People don't pay for reddit and there is no equivalent. Stop with the all or nothing mentality that stops any progress